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RHEL-09-653095 - RHEL 9 must periodically flush audit records to disk to prevent the loss of audit records.
Information
If option "freq" is not set to a value that requires audit records being written to disk after a threshold number is reached, then audit records may be lost.Solution
Configure RHEL 9 to flush audit to disk by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":freq = 100
The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
See Also
https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_RHEL_9_V2R8_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 STIG v2r8
Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
References: 800-53|AU-6(4), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000154, Rule-ID|SV-258168r958428_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-653095, Vuln-ID|V-258168
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 6efbdec1ba8d3bd8352a58278569d42294cc3add821f0676687ca03de181057a